A Volkswagen Beetle That Refuses to Go Kaput

A Michigan Man Reconnects With a 1958 'Love Bug'

July 22, 2014 12:33 p.m. ET

Rolf Schroeter, 53, an orthotist from Sterling Heights, Mich., on his 1958 Volkswagen Beetle, as told to A.J. Baime:

Growing up in Michigan, some of my earliest memories are of sitting with my mother as she learned to drive in a 1959 Beetle. My father was a German soldier during World War II, and I remember him talking about how similar the Beetle was to some of the reconnaissance vehicles of the Wehrmacht. I learned to drive in...